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RE: It's Meme Time!

in MemeHive3 years ago

"This is objectively false."

And it ignores history, which shows that only horrific violence ever changes politics, if only for a short respite.

What really changes civil society is technological advance. When I was a kid there were no cell phones. In fact, the telephones we did have on the island were party lines, shared between multiple homes. That was kinda fun, and sometimes half the neighborhood would be chatting with each other instead of making those important calls.

But, think about things like running water, electricity, and gasoline, and how they pave the road of life. Technological advance briefly profits capitalists, but eventually the means of production end up dispersing across the population as decentralization advances.

That eliminates the capitalists. It will take time, but paradise is coming.

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Intellectual property laws and corporate charters are government licenses to use violence against other people, not a property rights protection. When people are free to iterate in ideas, progress truly goes exponential, but the politically connected don't get as much profit. Most people seem to think that profit is proof that markets are bad in spite of the obvious interventionism and protectionism behind it.